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You mean like this? It was quite a common method, so not really that controversial. That would still get flagged up on a survey. https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=zkUSPucA&id=1B1C6A5F3DE99C30F32645F8868B846D803F95D1&thid=OIP.zkUSPucAR7WSOJaN80A1kgHaHa&media

As you suspect there's very little suction with them. They are also quite heavy, so with a wetter bed they are more likely to float and sink a bit. The mortar needs to be wet enough for you to be able to work with though. It's a bit of trial and error the first time you lay them. When you start...

When doing a brick on edge with Staffs I'd have 2 separate mixes. One slightly drier for the bed joint, and a slightly wetter one for the cross joints. It's harder to butter up the bricks with dryer mortar, but easier for lay them on a dryer bed joint.

You could cut a V out of the brick and resin bond it as shown. It's how squint bricks are often made nowadays.

The best way is to damp down the area first. Then lay a bed of mortar and butter the perps in a wedge shape, the same with the top of the hole. Butter the perps of the brick you are putting in with a wedge that goes the opposite way, so they fit together like folding timber wedges would. Do the...

Just a quick tip about replacing a single brick. When you butter the top of the brick and push it in you'll normally find it pushes back out. easiest way to stop this is to smear the bottom of the brick above with mortar which helps keep the mortar on top in place as you push it in.

Depends how much drops down the cavity.

Will be by the people that nick it.

They were known as 'coppers'.

Check the inner skin.

Boot lintels still have 150mm bearing on the inner skin. They taper in to the size of the frame on the outer skin.

Have a look at this. Basically explaining what woody has told you.

They are banned in the USA, but you can buy them in Screwfix over here.

Why did the SE specify all that steel in a strip foundation?

There's a pigeon nest in a Holly just outside our house. Looks like about half a dozen twigs dropped on a branch. I'm not surprised the chicks fall out of them. Makes my building look safe.

It's especially children and older people that have issues with this type of hearth.

Some people seem to prefer the looks of a raised hearth. A flush hearth is more popular with modern designers. There are probably more cons with a raised hearth than a flush one, but it's down to individual taste. Personally, I'd go for a flush one.

Anyone old enough to remember the split double collars for repairs like this?

When the cavity fill was 2 courses below damp and the inner skin was brick the cavity fill was often close to the DPC by the time the plate was going on and the snots off the ties had been knocked off.

I saw this article on DPC widths. https://www.buildwiz.uk/knowledge/materials/masonry/polyethylene-dpc-roll I've never known a wall to be pulled down because 100mm DPC was used instead of 112'5mm. It also says that the DPC is 2.5mm short each side, but it's only 1.25mm short of the brick each...